Additional login methods - Email authentication

[jpsteil]

What is the status of adding additional login methods? I want to authenticate to my email server.

[gi0baro]

As of today, there's no plan in supporting IMAP/POP3 login from the auth module. Some external work has been done about oauth2/oidc, but an extension is not there yet.

In case you want to login users using different protocols through the auth module in Emmett, you should write the appropriate code in your application (even using external libraries), and then manually create your User record. Once you have a user, you can manually log that user in using the provided method:

auth.login_user("[email protected]", "password")

or the low-level API one:

auth.ext.login_user(user_record)

Since you can override routes in the auth exposer, you might end up with something like this:

auth = Auth(app, db, user_model=User)
auth_routes = auth.module(__name__)

@auth_routes.login()
async def custom_login():
    form = await Form({
        'email': Field(validation={'is': 'email', 'presence': True}),
        'password': Field('password')
    })
    if form.accepted:
        # here goes the custom code to verify login with IMAP server
        imap_logged_in = some_function_that_validates_the_login(
            form.params.email, form.params.password
        )
        if imap_logged_in:
            row = User.get(email=form.params.email)
            if not row:
                row = User.new(
                    email=form.params.email, 
                    password=form.params.password
                )
                row.save()
            auth.ext.login_user(row)
            redirect(url("some_route"))
    return {'form': form}    

[jpsteil]

Thank you! That will do just fine. I looked through the source yesterday and that is pretty much what I was thinking, but your example will allow me to do it with more confidence.

-Jim